The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-18
THINGS HEARD AND SEEN.

You haven't any idea how some poor people
impose u.s." said member Of the Ladies'
Flower Mission yesterday. "Many persons pre-
tend to be sick when there is nothing the matter
with them, and get aid when they do not de-
serve it. Others who have worked portion of
the time spend their money for beer and depend
on US for meat While we were out over the
city Saturday found whole family of grown
boys idle and living off the society, which
keeping the sick father. There are others who
would not be satisfied if were to give them
half the city. Yesterday, after we had provided
a supply of bread and meat for family. they
asked if we couldn't send around can of honey"
mo wonder the banana peddlers have become
numerous that the police have found it neces-
sary to enforce the law against them." said a
fruit dealer. ''They make more money than
most men who open fruit stands in rooms, and
every new Italian that comes to the city gets a
cart and starts out. The bananas cost them lit
tie. 1t is fruit that cannot be sold to the trade
at the wholesale houses and has to be peddled
out on the street or lost. l have known some of
the best peddlers to make as high as $40 and SIS
day. They should be made to pay higher
license. for they have almost completely ruined
the business of men who pay room rent.
'Tbe laborinc men are continually complain
ing of the hardship they have to endure. but did
you ever hear word of complaint from the
hundreds Of women who earn their living by
daily toill' asked business man yesterday. 81
know that the men, in many instances have
every reason for not being satisfied, but the fact
that nothing is overheard from the women sim
ply illustrates their nature to endure hardshlps
of any kind without murmuring / will venture
TO say that the women employed in the factories
Of the city are imposed upon more than the
men. Where they do the same work that the
men do they get smaller wages, and the rules
governing their shop conduct are much stricter
In several establishments they are fined for
trivial offenses, and | have known the weekly
fine of girl 10 amount to more than her wages
All TINS they bear, and thought OF striking
never enter their minds. / sometimes think 1t
| would be better for them if they would show
| some OF the grit Of the men"
Indianapolis is sending fewer boys to the Re-
| form School now than at any time since the in
| stitution was established. Tho great decrease
| in number is supposed to he due to the influence
of the several charity organizations and the
/ Boot blacks Home. Many of the boys who have
been sent from here were not sent as criminals,
but simply because they had no home and were
without friends to see after them. Some too.
| We're outcasts who had parents of vicious habits
that drove them from home and compelled them
TO shift for themselves. There are yet many of
this class of boys in the city,
but they now kept under the care
| OF the Boot blacks and Newsboys' Home, and
kept from the communicating influence that
prevails in reform school An incident illus
trating the inhumanlty of some parents and the
necessity of home for outcasts occurred Satur.
| Gay night. when the police found a ten-year old
| boy wandering around in the western part oil
town without place to GO TO sleep. He gave
his name Bishop, and said he had been driven
from home. and was told never to return again
He was kept at the station-house all night, and
yesterday morning was taken TO the Boot blacks
and Newsooys Home.
Frank W Flanner, the undertaken few
DAYS ago. employed carpenter living on NORTH
Mississippi street TO put down q new floor in hi
Office. When the carpenter came TO the worl
no wore such ragged clothing that Mr. Flanne
supposed he must be poor fellow who had